You can go back in time to any era...
Muddy
USA
Sunday, July 7, 2024 8:01 PM
Your situation with you and your family stays the same. (ex: You can't go back to high school, your still married) But everything else changes back to that time.
I thought about it, and I'd be hesistant to give up some of the joys that we tend to take for granted today. I mean a smart phone makes these car rides so much easier. Music/podcasts and above all GPS. You ready to whip out a MAP again to find the shitty strip club out in the boonies? And the cars btw are way better today. Maybe not cooler but they are way better.
On the other side though some of the live music you could catch in the 70's and 80's would be just so badass. I feel like when nobody had a phone, there was definitely a tradeoff where it was just way better to socialize, because you didn't have anything, you didn't have an out.
And finally the strip clubs by most accounts would've been on the whole lot better in some places if you go back time. Maybe just 10, 20 years even.
I thought about it, and I'd be hesistant to give up some of the joys that we tend to take for granted today. I mean a smart phone makes these car rides so much easier. Music/podcasts and above all GPS. You ready to whip out a MAP again to find the shitty strip club out in the boonies? And the cars btw are way better today. Maybe not cooler but they are way better.
On the other side though some of the live music you could catch in the 70's and 80's would be just so badass. I feel like when nobody had a phone, there was definitely a tradeoff where it was just way better to socialize, because you didn't have anything, you didn't have an out.
And finally the strip clubs by most accounts would've been on the whole lot better in some places if you go back time. Maybe just 10, 20 years even.
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1984. Amsterdam. Red light district.
1994. Richmond Hill near Toronto. Fantasia.
2004. Drew Park in Tampa. Lipstixx.
2014. Absolutely nowhere.
2024. Here I am.
But after that, the last few years have been damn good too. In particular, this year has been awesome.
I'd have that war finished in no time, and as the guy whose clever ideas led to the speedy annihilation of the Brits, I figure I'd get laid a lot. Probably go on tour through all the colonies and hook up with a half dozen young ladies every time I stop for the night.
Here's a more fun answer: I'd go back to ancient Rome. Equipped with the very simple (but elusive) formula for making gunpowder, I would wind up being a famous and wealthy alchemist. (For the record, it's 75% saltpeter, 15% softwood charcoal, and 10% sulfur, and the proportions must be exact.)
I'd buy a nice villa in the middle of the city, just down the street from the best brothel in town, and I'd spend the rest of my days having Roman orgies.
Technology today is great but I think it’s in a stagnant point of too much right now. Smartphones have turned a lot of people (including myself) into 24/7 365 employees.
I just want to watch a certain college football game and it’s only steaming on an app, which I can only get on my phone which I can’t “cast” to my TV because the app is restricted. Things like this drive me insane. That’s technology working against you. I need a true self driving car, one I can sleep in until I get to my destination. I want a food machine that I just throw the ingredients into and out comes a full prepared gourmet meal. No, today people flip out because Apple adds new emojis to text messages, that’s the technology we get today.
I think it would be fun to go somewhere developing that eventually becomes huge, Vegas, South Florida, several California cities. A lot of places that I wouldn’t want to live today, were once really cool. Then again if I had the knowledge from the future I could pull a Buff Tanner (Back 2 The Future II) and bankrupt a few casinos through their sportsbooks. I’d take joy in that!
She moved in, she was boring as hell, went out with me and my friends once in like 3 months. I told her it wasn't going to work, she said ok, went to Cali and got hitched,
I would go back, do the marriage and take the money.
You didn’t go to Duke, did you. 😊
The post-war economy was booming. Seems like everyone could buy a home. And if you can believe movies, although prostitution was illegal it always seemed to be available. And if that wasn’t your thing, seems like there were always dances and mixers to help everyone find a partner
second. and MOST important. do vegas strip clubs ONLY one month instead of four years.
If you ever took any of your kids for a college visit on a warm spring day when all the coeds were out, you’d realize how much you wish you could go back in time.
I know stagflation sucked and all, but it would be kinda cool to visit the 70s. There was a whole bunch of stuff from that era that impacted culture to this day and it would be kinda cool to see the origin. And my boomer Filipino family members were going about society just fine at that time, so I probably would be as well.
I took that part seriously. I wasn't a factor.
A perfect movie which shows what high school life was like (minus the paddle bullshit, I grew up in MA. not TX.) is 1993's Dazed and Confused. It depicts one night, but for us that was life 4-5 days a week school year and every day in the summer.
I feel ya. I know there was no way to foresee what would happen to her that day, but gods don't I wish...